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counterpoint to that last tho
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"Find me on Mastodon." No I won't. Listen to what you're saying. You wouldn't even find you on Mastodon.
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Fwiw Ryan Mac was one half of the reporting team (w ) that revealed Peter Thiel financed the legal destruction of Gawker
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“He had other targets including Gavin Newsome…Tom Hanks…AND THE FEMINIST WRITER GAYLE RUBIN”!!!!!
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Nazi named after dessert dish who marched in CVille & livestreamed himself storming Capitol, let back on Twitter after it's bought by world's richest man, only to tweet regret the prez he did an insurrection for is now hawking NFTs, is perfect distillation of the Trump era
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A few weeks ago reported on the extremely selective suspensions on Twitter theintercept.com/2022/11/29/elo
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The Intercept journalist @micahflee has been suspended. He had been writing critically about Elon Musk.
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Donie O'Sullivan also regularly covered the far-right, particularly QAnon influencers/followers. Meanwhile, Q propagandist Tracy Beanz was reinstated to Twitter today.
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Journalists who cover Elon Musk have been suspended on Twitter tonight: @Donie O'Sullivan from CNN, Aaron Rupar and the Washington Post's @drewharwell.
Rupar tells me he has "no idea" why it happened.
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… if you do “bookmarks” I will always be at melissagiragrant.com
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Told someone today that by this point that banging on about “the trans debate” is like Benghazi for centrists so probably time to draw a bath and read a book for the rest of the night
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This was one of his last tweets.
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Bleak list growing here
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Journalists who cover Elon Musk have been suspended on Twitter tonight: @Donie O'Sullivan from CNN, Aaron Rupar and the Washington Post's @drewharwell.
Rupar tells me he has "no idea" why it happened.
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< jazz hands >
Conflating "safe" with "legal" causes even more harm to folks who are affected by abortion bans.
Safe self-managed abortion is possible -- the risks are legal, not medical. abortionpillinfo.org/en/sass
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JUST IN: DeSantis pledges support for a 6 week abortion ban, which would effectively end safe and legal abortion in Florida.
I wonder why he waited until after the election to announce this?
floridapolitics.com/archives/57654
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Not that anyone cares, but, in September, Paxton freaked out that credit card companies were marking gun store purchases with a vendor code. He said it was dangerous to create a "list of gun owners" & signed a letter arguing that collecting that sort of info was a kind of threat:
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Just months after beginning his attempt to remove transgender youth from their families, Texas AG Ken Paxton attempted to compile a list of every transgender person in the state who had changed the gender marker on their driver's license. No one knows why. washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/12
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In honor of that gross new Chait article, it’s always a good time to revisit one of our best episodes of the year, and on liberal journalists’ increasingly aggressive anti-trans bullshit
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Conveniently absent from @jonathanchait's piece:
-Florida banning trans healthcare for minors
-Texas investigating the parents of trans kids
-Multiple states criminalizing trans athletes
-The right wing media campaign to label every public queer person a pedophile
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Absolute disgrace that (It's Going Down) has been suspended from Twitter -- crucial news source on movement, anti-fascist politics. No one is surprised by hypocrisy on Musk's Twitter but this is extraordinary
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Regardless of whether you identify as an anarchist or anticapitalist, @IGD_News has done important reporting on #extremism and the far-right. It's shameful to see Elon Musk banning outlets and journalists at the whim of bigots.
All journos should be considering backup plans.
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“The GSA’s advisors were notified of the bomb scare exactly a week after the Libs of TikTok post went live, and LGBTQ+ advocates believe the fallout could set a dangerous precedent.”
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SCOOP: A college GSA was targeted with a bomb threat for hosting a drag show. Performers received numerous death threats.
The school won’t even recognize that LGBTQ+ students were the ones targeted.
thedailybeast.com/college-lgbtq-
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Tressie on point: the problem w Sinema isn’t that she’s soooo Gen X but that she’s a senator and yet it seems like she’d rather be a cool girl selling things online (I think I called her… a walking Bust ad of a senator?)
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Do we really need fifty million stories, all with the same exact angle, about 0.6% of the population though?
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The progressive activist strategy of insisting there's no medical debate about how treat gender-questioning kids, and attacking reporters who show otherwise, is a dead end nymag.com/intelligencer/
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Literally the worst people Elon could summon (though he probably didn’t have to try hard)—OUR, currently under investigation in Utah, was founded by a wannabe-commando guy who got a boost from Glenn Beck, and who told me he wanted OUR to be “like Blackwater for sex trafficking”
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Twitter's new head of trust and safety has invited QAnon-adjacent and publicity-hungry anti-trafficking group OUR (the subject of a criminal probe believed to be ongoing) to discuss a partnership. OUR tells me and @annamerlan it's "delighted" by the offer. vice.com/en/article/dy7
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"The problem with Albie's perspective, of course, is the assumption that a whore, or an exotic beautiful girl from a foreign island, would have no agency of her own."
Amazing analysis of the SW on #WhiteLotus by @tinahornsass: mashable.com/article/the-wh
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I’m sorry, the Rochelle Walensky “thank god only disabled people are dying” statement was in JANUARY? This has been the longest year of my fucking life.
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In our latest, we take a look back at 2022, the year the pandemic “ended,” and the social and political developments that led covid to be so deeply normalized by the end of the year
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Anyway brothers sisters can’t you see the debate club ppl know they’re losing
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There’s no “progressive activist strategy” about “medical debate” for treatment options, because it’s well-understood that treatment depends on the child, and is necessary. You’re confusing that with y’all turning people saying “I exist” into just a matter of “debate.”
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Probably just a coincidence that the Chait story opens by characterizing two LGBTQ journalists as a problem
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Good sign to log off and retreat to my SCANDAL IGLOO
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I want all the research possible. I want all the questions answered. If you find the current environment doesn't allow for your desired level of nuance in the public discourse, take it up with the people banning the health care I need to live.
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Editors really need to stop and ask, if a state attorney general starts compiling lists of members of a particular community, who is under threat from who exactly
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Won’t someone think of the reporters, sadly under threat from the progressive activists at the… American Medical Association
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The progressive activist strategy of insisting there's no medical debate about how treat gender-questioning kids, and attacking reporters who show otherwise, is a dead end nymag.com/intelligencer/
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Holiday party reminder that you should still invite your chronically ill + disabled friends to things even if we can’t go
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I mean the DC version of this is pretty ultra washingtonian.com/2021/12/01/dri
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Relatedly: “outdoor dining” since last winter has slimmed down considerably to the following options: unheated sidewalk/patio; fully enclosed, unheated group Covid barn; enclosed, unheated table in a plastic sphere, blankets available, for $150/90 min w/ a $50 min spend per guest
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Tayler Hansen, who saw Ashli Babbitt get shot on January 6, is paid by a relatively new right wing activist organization Texas Family Project (TFP). Sara Gonzales, who I've seen carrying a sign calling Beto O'Rourke a pedophile, works for Blaze TV and also works with TFP.
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The last time Hansen did this, he misrepresented what he saw. This was followed by a number of threats being sent to the venue, which cancelled several events out of fear for their safety.
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"The threats stem from a far right 'independent journalist' named Tayler Hansen, who posted video on Twitter of a Christmas drag event for all ages at Starlighter on Friday, December 2. Hansen [falsely] claimed a child was left unattended..."
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Right wing activists working with the Blaze TV and Texas Family Project must have realized that protests outside drag shows which often feature sexual language and are always outnumbered don't look great, so they've taken the tactic of filming drag shows for selective outrage.
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Relatedly: “outdoor dining” since last winter has slimmed down considerably to the following options: unheated sidewalk/patio; fully enclosed, unheated group Covid barn; enclosed, unheated table in a plastic sphere, blankets available, for $150/90 min w/ a $50 min spend per guest
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It’s all cough out here
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Getting around on public transit in New York right now… walking out of one guy’s unmasked cough right into another
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